TY - GEN
T1 - Leakage power Reduction for coarse grained dynamically reconfigurable processor arrays with fine grained power Gating technique
AU - Saito, Yoshiki
AU - Shirai, Tomoaki
AU - Nakamura, Takuro
AU - Nishimura, Takashi
AU - Hasegawa, Yohei
AU - Tsutsumi, Satoshi
AU - Kashima, Toshihiro
AU - Nakata, Mitsutaka
AU - Takeda, Seidai
AU - Usami, Kimiyoshi
AU - Amano, Hideharu
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - One of the benefits of coarse grained dynamically re-configurable processor array(DRPA) is its low dynamic power consumption by operating a number of processing elements(PE) in parallel with low clock frequency. However, in the future advanced processes, leakage power will occupy a considerable part of the total power consumption, and it may degrade the advantage of DRPAs. In order to reduce the leakage power, a fine grained Power Gating(PG) is applied to a DRPA, MuCCRA-2.32b, and leakage power and area overhead are measured. We evaluated the effect of two control modes; Pair and Unit Individual based on layout design and real applications. It appears that by applying PG for ALUs and SMUs in PEs individually, 48% of leakage power can be reduced with 9.0% of area overhead.
AB - One of the benefits of coarse grained dynamically re-configurable processor array(DRPA) is its low dynamic power consumption by operating a number of processing elements(PE) in parallel with low clock frequency. However, in the future advanced processes, leakage power will occupy a considerable part of the total power consumption, and it may degrade the advantage of DRPAs. In order to reduce the leakage power, a fine grained Power Gating(PG) is applied to a DRPA, MuCCRA-2.32b, and leakage power and area overhead are measured. We evaluated the effect of two control modes; Pair and Unit Individual based on layout design and real applications. It appears that by applying PG for ALUs and SMUs in PEs individually, 48% of leakage power can be reduced with 9.0% of area overhead.
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U2 - 10.1109/FPT.2008.4762410
DO - 10.1109/FPT.2008.4762410
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:63049088417
SN - 9781424427963
T3 - Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, ICFPT 2008
SP - 329
EP - 332
BT - Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, ICFPT 2008
T2 - 2008 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, ICFPT 2008
Y2 - 7 December 2008 through 10 December 2008
ER -